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"bOTh sIDez ArE thE saME!!!1!" amirite?
If anyone reading this is one of those "undecideds" or were banging the third party drum and are tired of hearing "we told you so", well, bad news, buckaroos: You better buckle up because I'm just getting started.
commented this elsewhere, but the general idea is that by showing that an important contingent of the left won't vote for a pro genocide president, the democrats will have no choice but to run a candidate that is electable in the future.
this means that trump might be president in 2024. That sucks, but most of the damage has already been done (supreme court, senate, etc). Might as well show the dems that they have to run a candidate that supports the rights of civilians all around the globe
@[email protected] This you? How's that attitude working out for you now, huh? Hope your moral purity eases your conscious because this is partly on YOU.
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i felt powerless because the dems were supporting genocide, so i tried leveraging what little power i had months out before the election to bluff and say i wouldn't vote unless they stopped doing genocide in gaza. how is that not CLEARLY the best option?
why are you blaming anyone but the people fucking killing civilians in gaza? Biden had the ability to end the whole thing with a phone call and didn't
i voted for harris in pennsylvania man idk what to tell you
Blame everyone but the DNC.
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If you haven’t heard his exact words I recommend watching the video to get the gravity of how insane and evil he truly is
The whole thing is worth watching, but here's some timestamped links to a couple of parts of the presser where he discusses this:
I think around the 38 minute mark is the closest he gets to answering who is going to live in the Gaza strip in the future.
Lol thanks for your vote (and non votes) suckers! Just don't call it genocide. Watch netanyahu's face during the press conference. Trump is a useful idiot and he and other leaders know it.
Nothing new about presidents loving fascists.
This will take US to a war, which is even bigger shitshow than Iraq and Afghanistan. It will mean boots on the ground for next 50 years.
He said that Biden/Kamala will take US to a war, but projection is what he always does.
It won't be a war, it'll be sending US troops to commit genocide.
The genocide will cause war with neighbors.
Literally genocide.
As opposed to the fake over exaggerated genocide the Free Palestine protesters were uppity about. Let's raise you a real fucking Genocide.
Both sides tho.
That was genocide too. This is just a faster and more ruthless genocide. Those were the options offered to American voters, and they chose Nazism, extra genocide, and plunder by billionaires.
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No, fuck off. It was already horrible. This being worse doesn't excuse what was happening before.
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Mar-A-Lago is 7 hectares, maybe start with that little bit of land for resettlement?
Dear imperial news... It's called "ethnic cleansing".
The world doesn't need another Trump golf course
With my money? Pry it from my cold, dead hands first.
Elmo already did.
Reports the Associated Press. Jesus fucking Christ, end him already.
Yet there won’t be much protesting going in the US….
Well if there is, they will send you to checks notes El Salvador. El Salvador? That shit came out of left field. Is it nice there? Any extra judicial killings or what not?
El Salvador has a president who has gutted what used to be a democracy and runs the country as an autocrat. Trump and his fellow scumbags (Marco fucking Rubio for one) are watching him with admiration and taking notes.
https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2023/12/07/back-by-popular-demand-authoritarianism-in-el-salvador/
The right loves him because he reduced the rates of crime in El Salvador.
Problem is that his approach was to just throw everything that moves in a slightly funny way in jail. This does admittedly reduce crime, but in a similar way to how a nuclear bomb really is the most effective crime reduction tool - if you kill everyone on the planet, no one can commit any crimes, hence the crime rate will be 0.
because he reduced the rates of crime in El Salvador
According to his own government's statistics.
He has also offered to house (which probably means "neglect, enslave and torture") immigrants sent to El Salvador by the Musk/Trump junta.
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